Many of our AGS members are avid readers. If you are one of them, we hope you’ll join us on the third Sunday of each month for the AGS Book Club. Each month we'll focus on a book about cemeteries, gravestones, mourning customs, funerary practices and death & dying. We hope to include books written by AGS members, classics in our field, newly published books, as well as fiction that feature the subjects mentioned above.
Details for our next book club meeting:
Facilitator: Katie Goodsell
When: Sunday, August 9th, 2026
Time: 7 p.m. Eastern Time
Where: Please register here: https://ags.wildapricot.org/event-6734093
We'll send a Zoom link to the registrants on the day of the book club meeting.
Our selection for August 2026: Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries by Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries throughout the South―including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries―this volume demonstrates the importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for examining power relations, community formation, and historical memory.
Looking forward to seeing you in August!
Your host: Katie Goodsell
PO Box 2975 | Amherst, MA 01004 The Association for Gravestone Studies is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Copyright 2024
